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A new EU Security Strategy: towards a militarised Europe?

18 August 2016

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"“Europe has never been so prosperous, so secure nor so free”. It was 2003 and those were the words introducing the self-congratulatory EU Security Strategy that set the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) guidelines for the next 13 years. The former High Representative (HR), Javier Solana, drafted it to tackle indirect and external threats, as almost none existed at home. Now, the current HR, Federica Mogherini, faces very different circumstances and so the strategy does too."

See the full text: A new EU Security Strategy: towards a militarised Europe? (link)

See also: EU says "soft power is not enough" as German and French ministers call for "European Security Compact" (Statewatch)

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